I have lived in Japan for a while, and it makes me sad when members of the U.S. military die because this particular aircraft was poorly conceived after many years and many millions spent. It is an airplane that can become a helicopter, but then it cannot. If ever again a crew is asked to fly the CV-22 Osprey and tilt the rotors in flight, a least two engineers from the manufacturer should be required to ride along.
I am a foreigner in Japan for more than 30 years. John makes the Only in Japan YOU TUBE channel, and the vid from him here makes the point that recently there are some who behave badly and make the good foreigners like me, by association, look not so good. Much of what he talks about is particular to Tokyo. I am in Shizuoka about an hour out by fast train.
I can only link it, YOU TUBE does not allow me to embed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kce6avxBYU
I do not count the gentleman from down in Louisiana. Caroline was the Ambassador to Japan in the second Obama term, and for her brief time, she made connections to earlier times. I beg you to listen.
Every time I do what I do here I feel I have to define it. I have other places on the WEB for other things. Here I am only curating from YOU TUBE but not showing anything that was original with me. I am only pointing at things that I think others should be interested in just because I was interested in such things. This one is the history of the country where I live – Japan.
As you might watch very carefully, you see a fade-in/fade-out of a modern day American, It is NOT a positive reference.
